Birch''s Confectionary Shop, 15 Cornhill, 1926

Birch''s Confectionary Shop, 15 Cornhill, 1926Watercolour on paper. A view of the facade of Birch''s Confectionary Shop, 15 Cornhill with a baker standing at the open doorway. The front is highly ornamented, painted in green with three arched and compartmentalized windows in which jars of iced caked, biscuits and other baked products can be seen. The panes also advertised Jelly, Wines and soups and the upper windows are marked ''Birchs Soup Rooms''. In the foreground 3 pigeons eat some crumbs.

they were large buildings on four or five floors

From Roman coins and medieval trinkets to Georgian clay pipes and Victorian love tokens

Arranging the produce for market was demanding work and

'POOR' by light blue

Tottenham Court Road

Ludgate Hill

Dishwasher safe (top rack only for the case)

In their own words

Officers Mess Sergeant of 1st Life Guards

The writer John Evelyn described London as 'this Glorious and Antient City…so full of Stink and Darknesse' in his Fumifugium of 1661

The Alhambra and the Garrick Theatre are all included in the composition

it shows the poor and overcrowed conditions in which the poor lived in Victorian times